1. The reading does not specifically say that the Islamic religion is for or against the sciences. It instead states that religion and sciences serve two different purposes. The reading seams to have a slight negative opinion although beause of the lack of faith those that practice the sciences have. The reading states that because they practice sciences they come to the conclusion that everything must have a reasonable and logical explanation while religion requires some faith and because those who practice the sciences don't have that faith you get the sense from the reading that there is a slight dislike of the sciences.
2. Yes religion and mathematics should be separated because neither effects the other. Mathematics is based on facts that "once known and understood, can not be refuted" while religion is based on faith. Al-Ghazali also explains that in the Islamic religion there is no law that condemns the sciences. Because the fact that neither effects each other and they are able to coexist Al-Ghazali believes that the religions should be separated.
The truth about Plato and Al-Ghazali
Al-Ghazali and Plato both talked and taught about how to find truth and exactly what reality was. Both men taught that you must question everything in order to find the truth and that you are not able to rely on your sense to determine what is real or not. This evident by Plato's cave in which he explains that men are bound to rocks and forced to look at shadows on the wall. There perception of reality is based solely on what they see and hear and it is no where close to what is really true as discovered by one who escapes the cave and visits the outside world. Al-Ghazali version of this is that life and the world is the cave, we are misguided by the things around us and that the only way to truly discover the truth is through death.
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